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GoPro/Racer X Film Festival Winner Announced

Friday, December 21, 2012 | 1:50 PM

After months of filming, editing, judging and voting, we have our 2012 GoPro/Racer X Amateur Film Festival champion. Congratulations to Dayton Daft, of Boulder, Colorado, for taking the top spot on the podium. His winning entry secured enough votes in the finals to get the grand prize:

  1. A $1,000 budget from Racer X to make an exclusive video for Racer X Online
  2. The Ultimate GoPro MX Package
  3. A Unit prize package valued at $750
  4. A Racer X t-shirt
  5. A one-year digital subscription to Racer X Illustrated

The runners-up finished in the following order, and will also receive prize packages from GoPro, Unit, and Racer X.

2. Jeff Scott (Hudson, OH)

3. Chris Barnes (Riverton, UT)

4. Keven St-Pierre (Quebec, Canada)

A huge thanks goes out to GoPro and Unit for their continued support of amateur action-sports film making.

Although voting has ended, you can still view all the finalists’ entries HERE.

Congratulations to all finalists!

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Mr-Mx wrote: 7:23pm December 21, 2012

Congrats nice piece !

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DPoe322 wrote: 10:01pm December 21, 2012

Great work! That was a pleasure to watch.

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taxpayer wrote: 10:45pm December 24, 2012

Never saw these. They did not meet the qualifications of the contest.
Fraud! Screw go pro. Throwing mine away.

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taxpayer wrote: 10:56pm December 24, 2012

The winner is not at the Ranch, see the rules. maybe they raced there but it was not filmed there. Go pro liars!

Create and upload to YouTube an edit shot on GoPro of your race moment of awesomeness. Your video must meet the following criteria to be considered a valid entry:
•Entry must be shot 100% on a GoPro camera.
•Entrant must be a registered participant of the AMA Amateur National Motocross Championship at Loretta Lynn Ranch.
•Entry must be of entrants own race footage obtained at Loretta Lynn Ranch.
•Entry must be up loaded to YouTube and tagged “GoProLorettaLynn2012.”
• Entry must contain “GoPro” in the title of the video.
•Entry must be posted by August 20th, 2012.

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taxpayer wrote: 9:55am December 25, 2012

Wrong contest...sorry

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ZeeZee wrote: 10:31am December 25, 2012

No worries taxpayer. They never did announce a winner from the LL video contest. Guess they didnt want to pay up! There was a clear winner that followed all the rules and won, I guess there wasnt enough marketing caused by it to justify paying up!

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